Some Favorite Writers: Yiyun Li, 2014

Tuesday Mar 4, 2014 7:30PM to 9:30PM This is a past program

Yiyun Li’s debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel The Vagrants, won the California Book Award gold medal for fiction. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, her second collection, was a Story Prize finalist and short-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2010 she received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Her recent novel is Kinder Than Solitude.

Some Favorite Writers

This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.

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This series is supported in part by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA.

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, the Simms/Mann Family Foundation, The Brotman Foundation of California, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and all Hammer members.